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Ingredientद्रव्य

Vida (digesting mixture for mercury)

विड

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
विड
Hindi
विड
English
Vida (digesting mixture for mercury)

What the text says

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Definition1

  • A footnote defines vida as the substances combined to digest (jirna) any metal swallowed by mercury: alkalis, sour substances, sulphur, cow urine, salts and the like, and quotes a verse to the same effect.

    Chapter 24 · p. 572 · v. 16FootnoteTraditional description

Preparation1

  • In verse 16 the vida placed above and below the mercury is impregnated with the three alkalis, trikatu, the salt group and the sour group.

    Chapter 24 · p. 572 · v. 16Sanskrit verseTraditional description

Safety

  • Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.

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Procedures using it

2
Digesting gold (bija) in purified mercuryProcessing mica with gold and joining it to mercury

Other ingredients used together

15

Count of shared preparations.

Mercury (parada)×2Gold (svarna)×2Trikatu (three pungents)×2Sour fermented gruel (kanjika)×2The three alkalis (ksharatraya)×1Salt group (lavanavarga)×1Sour group×1Banana (kadali)×1Palasha (flame of the forest)×1Padma (lotus)×1Jiraka (cumin)×1Mica (abhraka)×1Rock salt (saindhava)×1Borax (tankana)×1Punarnava (hogweed)×1

Topics of the text that discuss it

1
Method of processing mercury

Course sessions

1
Mercury and rejuvenating preparations

Questions and answers

1
How do the editor's footnotes define bija, garbhadruti and vida?

Related entries

10
Alkali preparations (kshara)Cow urine (gomutra)Digesting gold (bija) in purified mercuryProcessing mica with gold and joining it to mercurySalt (lavana)Salt group (lavanavarga)Sour groupSulphur (gandhaka)The three alkalis (ksharatraya)Trikatu (three pungents)

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 8 times on 4 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

How do the editor's footnotes define bija, garbhadruti and vida?

Bija is a metal that, put into another metal while it is being cooked, gives it its own colour, and pure gold and silver are also called bija; garbhadruti is making what mercury has swallowed liquid inside the mercury; vida is the mixture of alkalis, sour substances, sulphur, cow urine, salts and the like used to digest what mercury has swallowed.

Detailed answer and sources

All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Extraction notes

  • A mercury-processing mixture, distinct from vida salt (ingredient_vida_lavana).

Quick facts

Content type
Ingredient
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
4
Chapters
Chapter 24
Extraction tasks
T27
Record id
ingredient_rasa_vida